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unlifelike

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Adj.1.unlifelike - without substance; "cardboard caricatures of historical figures"
artificial, unreal - contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"


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The poem concludes: "To copy what's invisible to improvise/a soul of things and remake solid life/into fresh anxious unlifelike form.
Even the author acknowledges that there's something creepy about all this, but what's creepiest is that of all the elements that go to make up the Nutshells, the bodies are the least convincing-there they sit or hang or lie in the middle of their lifelike rooms, yet they're stridently unlifelike.
Always subject to the charge of vanity in their desire for magnificent monuments, patrons came to prefer unlifelike poses and non-polychromatic effigies in order to avert the suspicion of creating a "painted" image.
 
 
 
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